CHAMBERSBURG - After a night of partying with someone a close friend told her she could trust, a woman fell asleep in the car on the way home. The light bumps of the road are the last thing she remembers before waking up, startled, and knowing something was wrong.

"I figured he was taking me home," she testified in court Tuesday. She then woke up, heard someone coming downstairs, and realized that her pants and underwear were halfway down her legs.

"I just kind of sat there for a minute," she testified. She was sore, she felt funny, and she recognized the signs of having sex.

"I tried my best to voice what was happening," she said, recalling telling her friend she was staying with. "I was freaking out."

Distraught but distracted by familial obligations, she got up, got changed, and went to pick someone up. Then she had a meltdown, and was finally convinced to go to the hospital and have a rape kit done.

Luke MacGregor Wilbur, 23, was convicted after about 20 minutes by a Franklin County jury, of one count of rape of an unconscious victim, for what prosecutors say was a rape that occurred in the early morning hours of Aug. 9, 2015.

In her testimony Tuesday, the woman said she had conversations with Wilbur in the past about them just being friends, and told him earlier in the evening of the incident about how well things were going with her serious committed relationship.

But it was Wilbur, who through his attorney argued that the woman was drunk, like he was, and that she had been flirting with him all night. His attorney said that not only was it possible that the woman was conscious, but that even if she wasn't, Wilbur was not aware of her state of mind, believing she was reacting to his advances.

After the trial, the woman, not named due to her being a victim of sexual abuse, told the Public Opinion that she was appreciative of all the support the received from everyone along the way, including the district attorney's office and everyone involved.

"Thank you to everyone for helping me get the right verdict," she said. "No matter how hard it was."

She warned that people do need to be careful, because this "type of thing" does happen more often. She encouraged others to speak out about their assaults, regardless of the difficulties with the process. And going to trial to get her justice was traumatizing, something evident when she cried throughout her testimony.

In a recorded police interview with Wilbur, he said that after driving the woman to the friend's house, he walked with her to the couch where she fell asleep. He said, while he was also very intoxicated, he knew she was asleep but decided to begin kissing her anyway.

Wilbur said in the interview that it seemed like the woman was passed out, but he couldn't really tell. He described her as moving "sleepily" but he decided to have sex with her anyway.

When asked by Chambersburg Police Detective Todd Hardin if the woman was responsive in ways such as caressing, Wilbur said she "just laid there."

The woman went to the hospital for an exam, but also called Wilbur to ask him about what happened and if he knew what he did. The woman said Wilbur stuttered and said yes before hanging up.

Wilbur's attorney, Eric Weisbrod said in opening statements that the part of the evidence the jury needed to pay the most attention to was the "admission" he gave to police. Weisbrod said that is what the case was about, whether or not he was truly admitting to raping the woman.

He asked that the jurors put aside their instinct to side and feel for the victim, and instead wait and listen to everything before making their judgement.

In his closing arguments, Weisbrod said Wilbur not only felt the act was consensual, due to the woman's "flirting" all night, but also felt that even if the woman wasn't unconscious, Wilbur certainly did not know she wasn't conscious.

'He waited until he didn't have to ask anymore'

First Assistant District Attorney Lauren Sulcove countered that in her closing arguments, by replaying an exchange from the taped recording of Wilbur's police statement. After Hardin asked Wilbur what condition the woman was in when they arrived at her friend's house, Wilbur replied:

"Well, when we got to the house, what's the word for dead? Necrophilia. That's not the right word, but she was like pass, passing the **** out."

Sulcove argued that Wilbur's actions and statements showed that he clearly felt guilty about what had happened. She said that after the woman denied a romantic relationship with him several times, "he waited until he didn't have to ask anymore."

Wilbur's conviction means that he needs to have a state sexual offender assessment done before he is sentenced, so the sentencing date has been set for September 7.

Wilbur has been held at Franklin County Jail on $75,000 bail while awaiting trial, and Weisbrod told the judge that Wilbur is not in the position to make bail now.